Mortals Quotes

We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.

They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

Nothing is difficult to mortals; we strive to reach heaven itself in our folly. [Lat., Nil mortalibus arduum est; Coelum ipsum petimus stultitia.]

Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.

A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.

I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on; they already had death in them: at most you simply hastened things a little.

Fresh grapes and wine are perhaps the most luscious foods we mortals encounter during our sojourn here.

Patiently enduring some things is part of our mortal education.

Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their way, but we, poor mortals, in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.

Surely mortal man is a broomstick!

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

Youth is a mortal wound.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay.

My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control.

Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more.

Chickens are brave till the foxes come at night; mortals are courageous till the death comes at twilight.

If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!

The gods do make playthings of us ... but it is we mortals who provide them with the tools.

They've been stealing mortals away for centuries, but they can't have you.

Conscience is a God to all mortals.

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.

Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.

We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.

hurt vanity is one of the cruelest of mortal wounds.

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.

Law, the king of all mortals and immortals.

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.

Cities of mortals woe-begone Fantastic care derides, But in the serious landscape lone Stern benefit abides.

I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.

You're a Demigod Percy, half god and half mortal!

We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)

Can mortal prayers ensure immortal happiness?

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

The shimmering night does not stay for mortals, not misfortunes, nor wealth, but in a moment it is gone, and to the turn of another comes joy and loss.

the only mortal sin is giving up.

Never, dear gods. Never mess with mortals.

You mortals are like fish swimming in a globe of glass. That globe is your world. You do not see beyond it.

THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING.

In one of his books my father said, "Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse."